Copies will be around at the protests against the Republican National Convention (info here and here) in St. Paul, Minneapolis (1-4 September 2008). Grab your copy there; or better, take a bundle to distribute in your corner of the world or throughout your networks.

You’ll be able to pick up copies at the protest Convergence Centre. The address is: 627 Smith Ave S St. Paul, Mn 55107.

Tel.: (651) 293 3968.

Alternatively, copies can be ordered in the very near future from PM Press or directly from us (for the cost of a donation towards postage) by emailing editors[at]turbulence.org.uk

More translations can be found here.

Other translations are available here. Get in touch with us at editors[at]turbulence.org.uk if you can help out with future transations.

Other translations are also available here.

If you can help with other translations, email us at: editors@turbulence.org.uk

A couple of weeks ago, we sent to print the fourth issue of Turbulence: Ideas for movement entitled ‘Who Can Save Us From the Future?’ Containing articles and other contributions from John Holloway, George Caffentzis, The Free Association, Christian Frings, David Harvie, Sandro Mezzadra, Felix Guattari, Fabian Frenzel and Octavia Raitt, Tadzio Mueller, Harry Halpin and Kay Summer, Keir Milburn, Rodrigo Nunes, Ben Trott, and Kristyna Baczynski, as well as the Turbulence collective, we’ve been delighted with the positive response the magazine has so far received.

Turbulence is available for free, both in print and online. However, to ensure this can remain the case, we rely on generous donations from our readers. Printing Turb_04 set us back several thousand pounds, and distribution costs have so far stretched into the many hundreds. We’re thrilled to be receiving so many orders and requests for copies, but we have now well and truly run out of cash.

If you’ve already received a copy in the post, picked up the latest issue at a bookstore near you, or hope to be able to get your hands on one in the near future, please consider making a donation no matter how small!

Donations can be made via the PayPal button here.

If you’d rather pay directly into our bank account or write us a cheque, get in touch with us at editors@turbulence.org.uk

More translations to follow soon. If you can help, get in touch: editors@turbulence.org.uk

Many of the Turbulence collective will be taking part in the Camp for Climate Action, starting this weekend.

We will, of course, be distributing copies of the new magazine at the camp (remember to grab a bundle to take back to your local independent bookshop, social centre, or wherever else you can think of to distribute copies!)

We’re also going to be participating in a number of workshops, discussing some of the issues brought up in our latest publication and more.

On Thursday 7 August, The Free Association (many of whom are also involved with Turbulence) will be running a workshop entitled ‘Who Can Save Us From the Future? Capitalism, Crisis, Austerity and Freedom’. It will be taking place in Space B at 4:30pm.

In an unfortunate clash, Turbulence editor Tadzio Mueller will be taking part in a discussion entitled, ‘Copenhagen 2009 – What Will Be the Camp’s Response?’ at the same time. Mona Bricke and John Jordan will also be participating in the event which takes place in Space G.

Tadzio Mueller will also be discussing ‘Which Way Forward for the Climate Movement’ with Simon Lewis and Mona Bricke from 2pm on Thursday 7 August, also in Space G.

One of the Turbulence Collective, Keir Milburn, will also be taking part in the discussion, ‘The Road to 90% and the Role of the State’ alongside George Monbiot, Almuth Ernsting and others. The event takes place on Tuesday 5 August in Space A from 7:30pm.

The full programme for the Camp is available here. And information about the location is here.

The English version of a short text on the issue of climate change, written by Turbulence and published in the Block G8 brochure, ‘Chef es sind zu viele’ is online here (and in German here).

And don’t forget the Klimakamp in Germany from 15-24 August in Hamburg!

‘Who can save us from the future?’

Today, the very act of thinking about the future has become a problem. What both capitalism and ‘really existing socialism’ had in common was the belief in a future where infinite happiness would spring from the infinite expansion of production: sacrifices made in the present could always be justified in terms of a brighter future. And now? The socialist future has been dead since the fall of the Berlin wall. After that we seemed to live in a world where only the capitalist future existed (even when it was under attack). But now this future, too, is having its obituaries composed, and impending doom is the talk of the town. The ‘crisis of the future’ – that is, of our capacity to think about the future – is born out of these twin deaths: today it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

With this in mind we’ve assembled a collection of articles that, in different ways, speak to us about futures. As much as we didn’t want people’s ten-point programmes when, in June 2007 we asked ‘What would it mean to win?’, our interest here has nothing to do with futurology. There are no grand predictions. No imminent victory, because comfort-zone wishful thinking is the last thing anyone needs now; but no apocalyptic doom either. Neither are there any forward-view mirrors where capitalism recuperates everything and always gets the last laugh. We must have the modesty to recognise that the future is unknown, not because today is the end of everything or the beginning of everything else, but because today is where we are. What we do, what is done to us, and what we do with what is done to us, are what decide the way the dice will go. This requires the patient and attentive work of identifying openings, directions, tendencies, potentials, possibilities – all of which are things that amount to nothing if not acted upon – and of finding out new ways in which to think about the future.

CONTENTS

Introduction: Present Tense, Future Conditional by Turbulence

Today I See the Future by Turbulence

1968 and Doors to New Worlds by John Holloway

Starvation Politics: From Ancient Egypt to the Present by George Caffentzis

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast by The Free Association

Global Capitalism: Futures and Options by Christian Frings

The Measure of a Monster: Capital, Class, Competition and Finance by David Harvie

Et tu Bertinotti? by Sandro Mezzadra, with an Introduction by Keir Milburn and Ben Trott

There is No Room for Futurology; History Will Decide by Felix Guattari, with an Introduction by Rodrigo Nunes and Ben Trott [read as a PDF here (recommended)]

This is Not My First Apocalypse by Fabian Frenzel and Octavia Raitt

The Movement is Dead, Long Live the Movement! by Tadzio Mueller

Network Politics for the 21st Century by Harry Halpin and Kay Summer

Inside art work by Octavia Raitt. Cover design, Kristyna Baczynski

For order information, click here.

All articles are also available, for free, via our website.

Please get in touch with us at editors@turbulence.org.uk if you are able to help out with distribution, or would like to translate any of the articles published in this issue. Some translations are already available online. See: www.turbulence.org.uk/translations

Donations to cover costs incurred in production and distribution are welcome! They can be made via our PayPal account, here: http://turbulence.org.uk/donate/ or get in touch with us at editors@turbulence.org.uk

Let us know if you find any broken links, or have any suggestions or feedback. Email us at: editors[at]turbulence.org.uk

Or alternatively, you can just add a comment below!